Ben Bashford -Design thinking for connected things: My Talking House
Whilst doing this project it’s become more than clear that Twitter is a great channel for smart objects to use to communicate with people and I know there’s a number of Twitter connectedobjects already but there’s something really interesting that happens psychologically when it’s your own house talking to you.
At the moment all the sensor data is aggregated into this single “voice” that I’ve called Home Unit 1 for the time being. It’s interesting that even though I know it’s the output of multiple distributed sensors it feels like it’s a single entity - and it became much more pronounced when I made the messages feel more human.
So my house talks and what is says appears alongside all the things my friends are saying. I can listen to my house from wherever I am that has a network connection.
This is great, but it raises some interesting questions….
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